"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins News and Media Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler News and Media
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau News and Media
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) News and Media The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault News and Media
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight News and Media The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) News and Media
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James News and Media The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa News and Media
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) News and Media "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli News and Media
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch News and Media "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov News and Media
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) News and Media Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther News and Media
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) News and Media The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing News and Media
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard News and Media
